I really think they would have found out pretty soon anyways. If she was a theif, her best bet would have been to transfer a big chunk of the money into another account in another country and move there.

Better than the time I had my checking account overdrawn to the tune of $188,000 plus change. It seems someone fat fingered keying all the daily checking debits from Giant Food Stores and they hit my account. Instant ruin that took me three damn weeks to get corrected. About a year later I went to an ATM machine and I had a positive balance of $360,000 when withdrawing twenty bucks! Funny though, that was corrected the next day. I saved the receipt though.

That happens very often (though usually in the thousands, not for billions of dollars). Years ago, my husband worked in a job correcting such errors for a bank. Usually, the account holders would see the error and make a quick withdrawal, then spend it all. The bank would have to settle for something like $10/month pay-back from the customer, who ended up with an interest-free loan! When they asked one woman, "Didn't you know that the $100,000 wasn't yours?" She responded, "But, I was praying for it, and I thought God gave it to me."

had a positive balance of $360,000 when withdrawing twenty bucks!If that happened to me my fingers would of been worn out going from ATM to ATM withdrawing funds. Wonder what $100k in $20 bills would look like in my wallet.

The proof that God really gave it to you is when the bank doesn't ask for it back.

Has anyone else run across these phony $100 bills that say "This bill is counterfeit but Jesus is the real thing"? I've seen them twice now in the last week (and been a little disappointed on closer inspection!). The funny thing is, the bill has a picture of Al Gore (with beard) on it--I am NOT making this up!

Commie country. Redistribution of wealth. I knew of an unmarried couple in canada with 3 kids receiving a monthly child allowance check. They owned their own home (jointly) and both had jobs. This is not freedom, because they are "legally" robbing others.

Funny, she doesn't say that about her monthly "child allowance". What is that all about? That money must be coming from somewhere. I guess they pay her to have kids and no husband.

About 15 years ago, I received a notice from my bank saying that I had an overdraft because I had written a check for something like 1.9 million and I had a balance of only 1.7 million in my account. The actual balance was more in the neighborhood of $250. I never did figure that one out. By the time I received the notice and called, they had figured it out -- or so they claimed!

Ummm..does anyone else find it weird that this money didn't actually exist? Where did 93 billion kronors come from? Was it actually money that got pulled from other accounts? Where they actually in circulation, or were they so many numbers that just magically poofed into being when some datamonkey punched the zero button a little too hard?

Don't mean to be a stickler, but the article doesn't mention her marital status. The Swedes have a very different system from the US. Here's a link to a page from Sweden outlining the child allowance and some other support for families provided by their government.

With computers, almost anything is possible. Most money is just a set of bits in a computer (under a mountain in Switzerland?). Any decent programmer could make money from nothing (but he still can't get his chicks for free...;-).

Oddly enough, Sweden has always had a world-class air force as regards both equipment (mostly by SAAB) and numbers; when Sweden was planning air force buys in the sixties, for instance, they originally planned to buy 800+ Viggens, even though they eventually settled for only(!) 329.

In Socialist European countries, they have to pay people to have kids because the birth rate is so low. Many ethnicities are facing extinction because they are so morally bankrupt and while the governments believe themselves to be God(s), they have not determined how to beget children.

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